My professional responsibility: Staying for a while longer
I’m a little bit stressed-out right now. Need to get this out.
My boss mentioned starting the upcoming version of this project mainly entrusted to me early this afternoon. He has high hopes for version 2. Feelin’ a bit guilty since I’m already scheming to quit my job.
The project aims to replace the PHP-based system, which was highly inconsistent, unreliable and badly coded. The numerous patches and bugs coming from frequent requirement updates makes the whole code base practically useless for the next version. I’m the only one who has enough experience with the system to have maintained it since the old programmer left.
Can’t quite get myself to jump start the project though. I really want to resign. However, it is my professional responsibility not to leave the company dangling on a poor excuse for a web application.
Don’t really know what to do right now. And I can’t force myself to work on something my heart isn’t into. That’s not how it goes with me. Can’t decide on whether to ditch the company for greener, more stable and preferably .NET C# pastures or stay and have a sense of professional ethics. Of course, the latter is the right thing to do, but it’s not that easy to make the decision.
What to do in a situation like this? Please help!
Jaymar said:
hey! we can relate this situation to a love story! A guy(this is you) who doesn’t love his girlfriend (who has a serious illness(the company)) anymore. Lets just say that its not a lethal sickness to avoid being brutal here. :D
He is deeply in love to another girl and he is pretty much sure that she is the girl he wants to spend the rest of his life with. But the guy doesn’t want to hurt his girlfriend by leaving her and now he is torn between his conscience and his heart.
Now. Conscience or Heart?
errr..do I even make sense here? :p
Jeai said:
Heheheheh! Yup! That’s about the same dilemma I have. But when it comes to that situation, I’d definitely follow my heart. :D